
It's almost beyond dispute that the 1987 film
Withnail & I is a treasure of British cinema. This grimy, unsentimental and endlessly quotable comedy of two unemployed actors who go on holiday to the country 'by mistake' has deservedly reached cult-classic status.
How lucky for
Murray Close, then, that he was the movie's on-set photographer, capturing the stars
Richard E Grant and Paul McGann on location, in character and between takes. The results are behind-the-scenes gold dust for the legions of Withnail fans and can are currently on show in
Withnail & Me - The Photography of Murray Close at the Proud Gallery Camden, London, until June 7, 2009.
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